Detachable handle



:(No Model.)

' D. PHILBRIOK. DETAG-HABLE HANDLE.

No. 400,360; Patented Mar. 26,1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL PHILBRICK, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS IRA MARDEN, OF RYE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

' DETACHABLE HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,360, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filed January 2, 1889. Serial No. 295,211. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL PHILBRICK, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Detachable Handles, of which the following is av specification.

Myinvent-ion consists of a device, which I herein denominate a detachable handle, for facilitating the carrying of heavy packages, especially trunks, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and set forth in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference'point out similar parts on each figure, Figure 1 is a rear perspective view of my invention, the hooked bar being thrown upwardly. Fig. 2 is a view of the end of a trunk having one of my detachable handles connected thereto.

The device is composed of side standards, A, connected by a rear transverse brace, a, above which is another transverse brace, a, the latter serving as a holding-brace. Said braces are morti'sed into the standards and maintain them rigidly in position, and they also serve as limits for the hooked bar 0 when swinging either upwardly or downwardly, as presently more specifically set forth. The standards are preferably formed with two oppositely-inclined curves, as plainly seen in the drawings, whereby to secure proper leverage and purchase. Pivotally connected to and between the standards A, and intermediate of the transverse braces a a, is a revo-- luble roller, B, into which, midway of its length, is firmly secured abar, G, the free end of which is turned to form a hook.

When it is desired to utilize my device, the bar 0 is hooked onto the handle of a trunk, the rope or strap of a bale or package, and the lower ends, a of the standards A are brought to impinge against the surface of the article to be removed. The bar 0 will turn with the roller B, drop against the braces a a, is then grasped by-the hand, and a complete purchase is secured. The strain upon the article to be removed is thus distributed, and in the case of a trunk, as illustrated in Fig. 2, there is no danger of breaking its handles. It is obvious that, the purchase and tension being both upon the body and cover of the trunk, the strain is taken off the hinges and lock, which attachments often'become broken by handling.

It is well known that during transportation trunks are piled up in tiers' in baggage-cars, and that it is often necessary to remove a lower one. In that case it has to be forcibly pulled away from its position, and very often the connections are ruptured and the cover is wrenched off the body. Again, when a trunk is being removed from the car to a staging or to a truck, it is tossed about and roughly thrown down by those in charge. The distance between the car and the place of deposit is too great to allow two attendants at opposite ends of the trunk to handle it at the same time. If, however, each one has one of my detachable handles applied to either "end of the trunk, it can be safely removed over the ordinary intermediate space between the car and the baggage-truck, thus overcom= ing the universal complaint of baggage= smashing.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A detachable handle having side stand ards, A, connected by upper and lower transverse braces, a a, and provided intermediately of said braces with a revoluble roller, B, pivoted to said standards, said roller having midway of its length and at right angles thereto an extending hook, O, as and for the purpose indicated, substantially as described.

2. As anew article of manufacture, a detachable handle for temporary connection to removable packages, consisting of a pair of vertical standards, curved at their upper and lower ends in opposite directions, connected by under and upper transverse braces, a a, and a roller pivoted to and-between the standards, said roller having an extending hook and bar, 0, adapted to mesh with the connections of a package and to be swung against the transverse braces, whereby when the lever ends a of the standards are impinged against the surface of a package a compound leverage purchase will be secured, as and for the purpose indicated, substantially as described.

DANIEL PHILBRICK. Witnesses:

EMMONS B. PHILBRICK, SHIRLEY S. PHILBRI K. 

